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German Police arrest Bavarian cracking group

01 May 2009

Police in Bavaria have arrested 11 people suspected of being members of the Hacksector cracking group, which maintains a dark hats forum of the same name on the Internet.

German newswire reports suggest that the people arrested ranged in age from 15 and 22, with several of them being under 18.

Police say they have confiscated the computers and allied IT systems of the people arrested and are planning to forensically investigate the computer's hard drives.

Newswire reports suggest that the group may have been involved in the exchange of stolen credit plus debit card data online.

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